(1799 quotes found)
“The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.”
Christine Stevens
“I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas and ideals ... and silliness.”
Bill Watterson
“Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity- these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them.”
Mark Twain
“Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”
C.S. Lewis
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
Sigmund Freud
“Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.”
Aristotle
“How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.”
Robert Heinlein
“Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.”
Sir Walter Scott
“The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer”
Paula Poundstone
“Cats don't like change without their consent.”
Roger Caras
